Architectural Styles
Plantation
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1730-1860
- Blend of Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival styles
- Symmetrical
- Expansive porches or verandas
- ‘high ceilings
- large windows
- spacious rooms
- wood and brick
- tabby concrete (mix of lime, sand, & oyster shells)
- cornices
- pilasters,
- intricate woodwork,
- USA [South]
- Caribbean
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Plantation houses]
- outbuildings
- cotton gins
- granaries
- Oak Alley Plantation Louisiana
- Belle Meade Plantation Nashville
- Rosedown Plantation Louisiana
- Stratford Hall Virginia
- Seward Plantation Texas
- Whitney Plantation House Wallace, Louisiana
- Old Jackson Plantation, Schriever, Louisiana’
- Drayton Hall near Charleston, South Carolina
- Montpelier near Laurel, Maryland
- Destrehan sugar plantation Destrehan, Louisiana
- Moss Hill near Pine Apple, Alabama
- Millford Plantation in South Carolina
- Gaineswood in Demopolis, Alabama
- Great House / main residence hotels
- Great House B&Bs / guest suites
- Estate cottages / worker quarters adapted to guest lodging
- Plantation estate resort precincts
- Former plantation mills / industrial buildings converted to lodging
- Plantation estate lodges / hunting lodges
- Heritage “plantation tours + stay” properties
- taverns
- Inns
Adaptive Reuse
- Nottoway Plantation Resort (White Castle, Louisiana)
- Oak Alley Plantation Vacherie, Louisiana
- Stella Plantation B&B (Braxfield, Louisiana)
- Plantation House / estate hotels in Barbados
- Fazenda (rural heritage coffee plantation) hotels (São Paulo / Minas Gerais regions)
- Monmouth Historic Inn Natchez, Mississippi
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation